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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | 2006-01-09 21:18:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | 2006-01-09 21:18:00 +0100 |
| commit | 1aa1e24848903d11780db1ade355be73ad61a937 (patch) | |
| tree | fb15c937a1a6e9f0197c905cc7af6ee5df8b108c /RELEASE-NOTES | |
| parent | 47fbf3c58260e3fed1078061f8d45e01b0e120f0 (diff) | |
replace libsysfs
We never used any of the libsysfs convenience features. Here we replace
it completely with 300 lines of code, which are much simpler and a bit
faster cause udev(d) does not open any syfs file for a simple event which
does not need any parent device information.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES')
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 4e3570205e..623ea0ed60 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ udev 080 ======== +Complete removal of libsysfs, replaced by simple helper functions +which are much simpler and a bit faster. The udev daemon operatesentirely +on event parameters and does not use sysfs for simple rules anymore. +Please report any new bugs/problems, that may be caused by this big +change. They will be fixed immediately. + The enumeration format character '%e' is deprecated and will be removed sometimes from a future udev version. It never worked correctly outside of udevstart, so we can't use it with the new parallel @@ -10,6 +16,8 @@ MODALIAS and $modalias is not needed and will be removed from one of the next udev versions, replace it in all rules with ENV{MODALIAS} or the sysfs "modalias" value. +Thanks a lot to Marco for all his help on finding and fixing bugs. + udev 079 ======== Let scsi_id request libata drive serial numbers from page 0x80. |